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Women's Health Newsletters 7/5/98 - 8/9/98

 

 



***** Woman's Diagnostic Cyber Newsletter *****
                  August 9, 1998
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This week from Woman's Diagnostic Cyber
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1. Tylenol may cause ovulatory problems
2. Webrings for health and disease
3. Preterm labor prevention
4. Vitamin B6 for PMS -- ?too much
6. New Diet

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1. Tylenol may cause ovulatory problems
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Tylenol (acetaminophen) may cause lower estrogens
and a decrease in pituitary gonadotropins that are
responsible for monthly ovulation.


Tylenol lowers estrogen


While this is a recent report, experimental
studies in were conducted in 1982 that
actually ranked which pain and anti-inflamatory
medications interfered with ovulation the most.


1982 article

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2. Webrings for health and disease
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What is a web ring? It is a loose banding of web
sites that have a common focus. Usually a link is
placed on the main page of one site that points to
the next site and the previous site in the ring.
This way you can investigate materials at many
sites about the subject you are interested in.
In looking at the Webring directory on diseases,
the following rings looked interesting if you want
information about some of the following diseases
or conditions:

Anorexia & Bulimia - 19 sites
Asthma Sufferers Web Ring - 10 sites
Bodies Under Siege (self injury) - 39 sites
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome CFS-20's Webring - 11 sites
Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease(CJD) Webring - 8 sites
Cancer Victim's (relative with cancer) Webring - 12 sites
Circle 4 Cancer Parents - 10 sites
Congenital Heart Disease Ring - 86 sites
Crohn's & Colitis Web Ring - 27 sites
Endometriosis Web Ring - 49 sites
Families Coping With Cancer - 45 sites
Irritable Bowel Syndrome Webring - 7 sites
Muscular Dystrophy (MD) HomePages Webring - 8 sites
Multiple Sclerosis Web Ring - 96 sites
People With Parkinson's - 35 sites
Post-Polio Ring of Hope - 16 sites
Ring of Recovery and Health - 57 sites
Special Angels Webring - 133 sites
The Cystic Fibrosis Ring - 32 sites
The Diabetes Web Ring - 36 sites
The Haven (Porphyria) - 7 sites
The Hepatitis Webring - 80 sites
The IRC Cancer Chat Ring - 5 sites
The Myasthenia Gravis Web Ring - 8 sites -
The Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCO) Webring - 21 sites

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3. Preterm labor prevention
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Many women (and doctors) swear by the treatments
to prevent preterm labor such as bedrest,
medications to stop labor, risk scoring and so
on. Did you know that most of those treatments
don't stand up to scientific scrutiny? Check out
this review on our news site about prevention of
preterm delivery.


Preterm labor prevention


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4. Vitamin B6 for PMS -- ?too much
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There was a recent question on our message board
about the difference between daily requirements
for vitamin B6 and taking therapeutic doses to
improve symptoms of PMS. There are large
differences in these doses:


B6 supplementation

In Great Britain many women are on B6 supplements
and there is quite a controversy about what doses
will start to produce toxic effects and cause
peripheral nerve inflammation. Women on B6 may want
to know about those different doses.


B6 legislation

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6. New Diet
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Mrs. Lipsy said her doctor has had her on the
Valium diet for two years.

She explained, "If you take enough Valium, it'll
help you lose weight. It doesn't really curb your
appetite, but most of your food falls on the
floor."


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That's it for this time. We will bring you
accurate women's health answers again soon.
Rick
Frederick R. Jelovsek MD
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***** Woman's Diagnostic Cyber Newsletter *****
                  August 2, 1998
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This week from Woman's Diagnostic Cyber
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1. Hysterectomy Forum discusses "brain fog"
2. Stress Management
3. Atypical Cells on Pap
5. Breastfeeding
6. Humor Maintains Health

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1. Hysterectomy Forum discusses "brain fog"
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The Women's Healthcare Advocacy Service runs a 
good forum on women who have had a hysterectomy or 
are about to have a hysterectomy. This is a good 
support group who has recently had or is about to 
have a hysterectomy. As a subscriber to their 
email discussion list, you can learn about "brain 
fog" or "mind mush". This happens to some women 
after hysterectomy in which usually the ovaries 
are removed. Sometimes it may be due to anesthesia 
but most commonly it is due to lack of adequate
levels of replacement hormone therapy. Doctors 
don't tell patients about this much. 

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2. Stress Management
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your Health

This site has a great health risk assessment quiz 
with a list of links presented based on whatever 
you health risks are. Even without doing the quiz, 
your Health at Catholic Healthcare West has a ton 
of links. I especially liked the organization of 
links about stress management at: 


Stress management


Especially the link on the medical aspects of 
stress at:


medical aspects of stress


I learned that many things are considered 
stressful, but to the body, anything that causes a 
change in your life causes stress. It doesn't 
matter if it is a "good" change, or a "bad" 
change, they are both stress. I think that's a 
good way of looking at it. 

Under the link of Barriers to leading a less 
stressful life, I read about a great term -- 
OVERCARE 

"Overcare" is a term created by Doc Lew Childre,  
to describe the process we go through when our 
original intention to care for someone or 
something crosses a fine line, and we find 
ourselves feeling victimized and worried. 

What are some common Overcares in women?

I'm not giving enough time and attention to my 
kids. 
 
How can I possibly keep up the house when I'm 
working full-time? 

I feel like I'm expected to do everything around 
here. 

I'm too tired to feel sexy, I'm worried that he 
might be bored with me. 

I can't say no, they'll think I don't care and get 
upset with me. 

If I don't do everything myself, it won't get 
done. 

They'll never like me unless I'm prefect. 



Read about this at:


Barriers to leading a less stressful life


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3. Atypical Cells on Pap
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Abnormal Pap smears are not uncommon, but what do 
the different classifications mean? Especially the 
most common mild abnormality, atypical cells. 
There are actually two types of atypical cell 
classification, one involving squamous cells and 
one involving glandular cells. You need to know 
which one is present because the glandular one 
needs more aggressive diagnosis to see if a cancer 
is already present. See our news this week at: 


Atypical Glandular Cells of Unknown Significance (AGCUS)
 

Also, on our general news page, we have added a 
Yahoo link that will take you to the latest, news 
on many women's health topics. I think you'll want 
to bookmark this page. Try it out and let me know 
if there are any problems. 


News at Woman's Diagnostic Cyber



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5. Breastfeeding
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Jane's Breastfeeding and Childbirth Resources 
contains some excellent advice, but it also 
contains some of the less common but valuable 
resources such as newsgroups about breastfeeding 
and email newsletters. 


Jane's Breastfeeding Links



Also, there was a recent warning from the United 
Nations about women with HIV breasfeeding. For the 
first time they have publicically recommended that 
women with HIV do not breast feed. In endemic 
countries, where HIV may be 10-35%, over a third 
of babies are becoming infected with HIV by 
breastfeeding. 

Warning about breast feeding


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6. Humor Maintains Health
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Subject: beauty and the breast

God created woman, and she had 3 breasts.

He said to the woman "Is there anything on you 
that you'd like to change?" 

She said, "Yes.  Could you get rid of this middle 
breast?" 

God snapped his fingers and it was done.

She exclaimed, holding the third breast in her 
hand, "What am I going to do with this useless 
boob?" 

And God created man.

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And one for a "healthy" balance:

Subject: Dental Anesthesia

The Smiths were shown into the dentist's office.  
Mr. Smith was in a big hurry and said, "No fancy 
stuff, Doc. No gas, no needles.  Just pull the 
tooth and get it over with." 

The dentist replied, "I wish more of my patients 
were as stoic as you. Now, which tooth is it?" 

Mr. Smith turned to his wife and said, "Show him, 
honey." 


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That's it for this time. We will bring you 
accurate women's health answers again soon.
Rick
Frederick R. Jelovsek MD 
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***** Woman's Diagnostic Cyber Newsletter *****
                  July 26, 1998
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This week from Woman's Diagnostic Cyber
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1. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Diagnosis
2. Prenatal and Postnatal Care
3. Contraception and Sterilization
4. Vulvar disease
6. You know you work in the 90's when...

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1. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Diagnosis
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Polycystic ovaries are a frequent diagnosis in 
women with infertility or anovulation. Ever wonder 
about how that diagnosis is made and what are the 
long term health implications for women with that 
diagnosis. Look at our news this week at:


Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

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2. Prenatal and Postnatal Care
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Good section on pregnancy information on the 
Family Web especially the section on Development 
of the Baby with some graphics included. 

Prenatal and Postnatal Care

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3. Contraception and Sterilization
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Planned Parenthood of America has some concise but 
very informative fact sheets on different types of 
contraception and sterilization including: 

Continuous Abstinence 
Outercourse 
Sterlization 
Norplant® 
Depo-Provera® 
The IUD (Intrauterine Device) 
The Pill 
The Condom 
Withdrawal 
The Diaphragm or Cervical Cap 
The Female Condom or Spermicide 
Periodic Abstinence or FAMs
(Fertility Awareness Methods) 
Emergency Contraception 

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4. Vulvar Disease
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Vulvar diseases are not common but there is some 
handy information about, vulvar self exam, viral 
and yeast infections, lichen sclerosus, lichen 
planus, vulvodynia, squamous cell hyperplasia, 
vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia, Paget's disease 
of the vulva, sexuality and pain, and  various 
medications used for vulvar diseases. 

Vulvar disease

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6. Work in the 90's
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      YOU KNOW YOU WORK IN THE 90'S WHEN.......

 25.   When you consider Starbuck's a food group. 

 24.   When you schedule conference calls on your 
         mobile phone while you know you're gonna be 
         stuck in traffic. 

 23.   Whenever you hear an electric beeping, 90% 
       of everyone in sight reaches for their 
       belts. 

 22.   You find the words "conventional oven" 
       archaic. 

 21.   Cleaning up the dining area means getting 
       the fast food bags out of the back seat of 
       your car. 

 20.   Your reason for not staying in touch with 
       family is that they do not have email 
       addresses. 

 19.   Keeping up with sports entails adding 
       ESPN's home page to your bookmarks. 

 18.   You have a "to do list" that includes 
       entries for lunch and bathroom breaks and 
       they are usually the ones that never get 
       crossed off. 

 17.   You have actually faxed your Christmas list 
       to your parents. 

 16.   Pick-up lines now include a reference to 
       liquid assets and capital gains. 

 15.   You consider 2nd day Air Delivery and 
         Inter-office Mail painfully slow. 

 14.   You assume any question about whether to 
       valet park is rhetorical. 

 13.   Your refer to your dining room table as the 
       flat filing cabinet. 

 12.   Your idea of being organized is multiple 
       colored post-it notes. 

 11.   Your grocery list has been on your 
       refrigerator so long some of the products 
       don't even exist anymore. 

 10.   You lecture the neighborhood kids selling 
       lemonade on ways to improve their process. 

 9.    You get all excited when it's Saturday so 
       you can wear sweats to work. 

 8.    You refer to the tomatoes grown in your 
       garden as deliverables. 

 7.    You find you really need PowerPoint to 
       explain what you do for a living. 

 6.    You normally eat out of vending machines 
       and at the most expensive restaurant in 
       town within the same week. 

 5.    You think that "progressing an action plan" 
       and calendarzing a project" are acceptable 
       English. 

 4.    You know the people at the airport hotels 
       better than your next door neighbors. 

 3.    You ask your friends to "think out of the 
       box" when making Friday night plans. 

 2.    You think Einstein would have been more 
       effective had he put his ideas into a 
       matrix. 

 And the number one sign that you work in the 90's...

 1.    You think a "half-day" means leaving at 4 
       o'clock! 


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That's it for this time. We will bring you 
accurate women's health answers again soon.
Rick
Frederick R. Jelovsek MD 
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***** Woman's Diagnostic Cyber Newsletter *****
                  July 19, 1998
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This week from Woman's Diagnostic Cyber
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1. Cyber diet
4. LAVH - laparoscopy assisted vaginal hysterectomy 
5. Need a medical excuse?

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1. CyberDiet
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Ever go on a diet and have trouble planning meals 
to fall within certain calorie counts? Cyberdiet 
has tools with a neat meal planner. Just enter the 
number of calories you want for each meal. The 
meal planner will display a nice selection of 
possibilities to choose from. There are also tools 
for calculating your body/hip ratio and your body 
mass index which helps in determining your heart 
disease risk. This site is run by registered 
nutritionists. 

http://www.cyberdiet.com/index.html

CyberDiet


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4. LAVH - laparoscopy assisted vaginal hysterectomy 
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Is it your impression that LAVH is a safer type of 
hysterectomy than abdominal hysterectomy or just 
that its a faster recovery? It's not safer, but it 
is a faster recovery up to about 4 weeks. After 
that, a hysterectomy is a hysterectomy is a 
hysterectomy.


LAVH

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5. Need a medical excuse?
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Did you ever need an excuse for school or work or 
write one in a hurry?

These are actual excuse notes from parents 
(including original spelling) collected by 
Nisheeth Parekh, University of Texas Medical 
Branch in Galveston... 

#1. My son is under a doctor's care and should not 
    take P.E. today. Please execute him. 

#2. Please excuse Lisa for being absent. She was 
    sick and I had her shot. 

#3. Dear School: Please ekscuse John being absent 
    on Jan. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, and also 33. 

#4. Please excuse Tommy for being absent 
    yesterday. He had diarrhea and his boots leak. 

#5. Please excuse Mary for being absent yesterday. 
    She was in bed with gramps. 


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That's it for this time. We will bring you 
accurate women's health answers again soon.
Rick
Frederick R. Jelovsek MD 
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***** Woman's Diagnostic Cyber Newsletter *****
                  July 12, 1998
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This week from Woman's Diagnostic Cyber
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1. Tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer
2. Menstrual Cycle Wellness
3. Breast milk hormone (prolactin) and anovulation
5. Lack of Effect of Walking on Labor and Delivery
6. Dead hare 

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1. Tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer
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There's a lot of talk about the use of tamoxifen 
(an anti-estrogen) to prevent breast cancer in 
high risk women. It does decrease the occurance 
of cancer in high risk women by about 50%. The bad 
news is that it may increase endometrial cancer 
(by 100%) and there may be an increase in strokes 
and blood clots (almost double). It does protect 
against bone thinning (osteoporosis). I don't 
think its going to be useful unless you have a 
genetic tendancy toward breast cancer. If you do 
take it, you will need close medical monitoring,  
Check out the news at a the Breast Care site: 

http://www.homearts.com/depts/health/48newf21.htm

Breast health news


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2. (Menstrual) Cycle of Wellness
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Johnson and Johnson, makers of Carefree and  
Stayfree pads and O.B. tampons have a site 
dedicated to teaching young women about their 
menses. It includes anatomical drawings and 
explanations of the basic physiology of 
menstruation. There is even a menstrual calendar 
that can be used to keep track of your bleeding, 
cramps, and PMS symptoms as well as the start and 
stop of each cycle. (Calendar requires a browser 
plug-in.) There are also descriptions and pictures 
of  different stages of puberty development in 
young women. This looks like it might become a 
good teaching tool if you need to explain 
menstruation to your or someone's daughter. 

http://www.cyclesofwellness.com

Cycles of wellness

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3. Breast milk hormone (prolactin) and anovulation
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If the ovary doesn't ovulate, menses may be 
skipped, infertility is a problem, and eventually 
women may get prolonged irregular menstrual 
bleeding. Some women with anovulation have 
elevated milk hormone - prolactin. Prolactin 
elevation can also be associated with a milky 
breast discharge. See the disease and medication 
causes of increased prolactin at our weekly news: 

/nbleed.htm

Breast milk hormone (prolactin) and anovulation

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5. Lack of Effect of Walking on Labor and Delivery
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Is labor and delivery shorter or even less painful 
if a woman is allowed to walk during labor rather 
than be tied down in a bed with all those IVs and 
monitor connections?  Read what 
The New England Journal of 
Medicine reports.

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6. Dead hare restored
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A man was driving along the highway, and saw a rabbit hopping
across the middle of the road.  He swerved to avoid hitting the
rabbit, but unfortunately the rabbit jumped in front of the car
and was hit.  The driver, being a sensitive man as well as an
animal lover, pulled over to the side of the road and got out
to see what had become of the rabbit.

Much to his dismay, the rabbit was dead.  The driver felt so
awful he began to cry.

A woman driving down the highway saw the man crying on the side
of the road and pulled over.  She stepped out of her car and asked
the man what was wrong.

"I feel terrible," he explained.  "I accidently hit this rabbit
and killed it."

The woman told the man not to worry.  She knew what to do.  She
went to her car trunk and pulled out a spray can.  She walked over
to the limp, dead rabbit, and sprayed the contents of the can onto
the rabbit. Miraculously, the rabbit came to life, jumped up, waved
its paw at the two humans and hopped down the road.  50 metres away
the rabbit stopped, turned around, waved at the two again, hopped
down the road another  50 metres, turned, waved, and hopped another
50 metres.

The man was astonished.  He couldn't figure out what substance could
be in the woman's spray can!  He ran over to the woman and demanded,
" What was in your spray can?  What did you spray onto that rabbit?"

The woman turned the can around so that the man could read the label.
It said:

"'Hare Spray' Restores Life to Dead Hare. Adds Permanent Wave."


from 'This IS a laughing matter'
http://www.bestofhumor.com

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That's it for this time.
Will bring you accurate women's health answers again soon.
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Rick
Frederick R. Jelovsek MD 



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***** Woman's Diagnostic Cyber Newsletter *****
                  July 5, 1998
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This week from Woman's Diagnostic Cyber
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1. Emergency contraception
2. Electromagnetic fields and health effects
3. Breast cancer surgery and the menstrual cycle
5. Humor heals the mind which heals the body

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1. Emergency contraception
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Ever had a friend or relative or even a daughter 
who had uprotected sexual intercourse and was 
worried about an unintentional pregnancy? There is 
medication that can be taken to help reduce the 
chances of pregnancy. In fact the U.S. government 
is thinking about making it available over-the- 
counter. Read about whether it will be effective 
or cause complications:

/ncontra.htm#erbc

Emergency Contraception

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2. Electromagnetic fields and health effects
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Does living near high power electrical lines cause
cancer or abortions or birth defects? Probably not
but there is a possible association with cancer 
that experts think should be further investigated.
See their comments at:

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/317/7150/12/a

Electromagnetic fields
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3. Breast cancer surgery and the menstrual cycle
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If you or a friend were to develop breast cancer,
would it matter to your overall survival when in 
the menstrual cycle the surgery takes place? 
Hormone levels vary during the cycle and maybe
they would  make survival worse, for example
during times of high estrogens. It appears it 
doesn't matter, but check it out at:

Breast cancer surgery and menstrual cycle

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5.  Healing Mind - Labor pain transfer machine 
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A married couple went to the hospital to have 
their baby delivered. Upon their arrival, the 
doctor said he had invented a new machine that  
would transfer a portion of the mother's labor 
pain to the father. 

He asked if they were willing to try it out.  They 
were both very much in favor of it. 

The doctor set the pain transfer dial to 10% for 
starters, explaining that even 10% was probably 
more pain than the father had ever experienced 
before. But as the labor progressed, the husband 
felt fine and asked the doctor to go ahead and 
bump it up a notch, The doctor then adjusted the 
machine to 20% pain transfer. The husband was 
still feeling  fine. The doctor checked the 
husband's blood pressure and was amazed at how 
well he was doing. 

At this they decided to try for 50%. The husband 
continued to feel quite well. Since it was 
obviously helping out his wife considerably, the 
husband encouraged the doctor to transfer ALL the 
pain to him. The wife delivered a healthy baby 
with virtually no pain. She and her husband were 
ecstatic. 

When they got home the mailman was dead on their 
porch.

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That's it for this time.
Will bring you accurate women's health answers again soon.

Frederick R. Jelovsek MD 



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